skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead a building, or anything at all, is worth exactly how much other people are willing to pay for it. No more, no less.

The point you're missing is that buildings need valuations much more frequently than they are sold. CRE is generally mortgaged to the maximum extent possible (to use maximum leverage), and those mortgages need frequent re-upping as the commercial real estate market does not work like residential where you can get a 30-year fixed. So the property needs to be constantly valuated so that the banks know how much equity the owners have in the building (and if the loans are underwater), and this is being done constantly, way more frequently than the individual building is actually sold. The most common way to do this is to look at the price the building was last sold for, see how rents have changed since then, and use that as a modifier on the last sold price. (Or just a flat multiplier on top of total rents.)
it does work in vienna. almost 60% live in housing owned or subsidized by the city. there are waiting times, but not as bad as you think. for one you have to be already living in vienna for a few years to qualify (which is unavoidable, otherwise any EU citizen would qualify automatically). the option to pay a lot for rent still exists, but the average family can't afford that.
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InfoLobby is an online business data management and team collaboration platform.

Build tables for data with simple drag & drop and spread those tables over workspaces so that users can have access to only those tables they should.

Assign tasks to users and manage your delegated tasks easily.

Email is built-in so you can communicate with external contacts on your individual records.

The built-in automation engine is super powerful and fast. You can leverage the automation engine to modify your data, send emails, create PDF's, interact with any oAuth2 API, and much more.

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Unlike similar platforms, pricing is tiered by user role, so you don't have to pay a fortune for all those regular users who only input occasional data.
> its very unclear if even other people are concious

Myopic edgelord main character syndrome.

Under what circumstances would you, the human, be conscious but other humans are not?
>Where was brown rice the traditional way of eating rice (for non-elites)? During what centuries roughly? What is your evidence?

Japanese commoners prior to the post-WW2 era mostly ate brown rice, white rice was eaten only by the rich and powerful.

Even today, "hakumai"/"shiroi gohan" (white rice) still holds some of that special regard compared to "genmai" (brown rice), and that's despite the latter now being known as a vastly superior source of nutrients.

I am not familiar with the food histories of other asian countries, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are similar.
I think claiming that bees rolling little wooden balls are playing is like claiming that moths endlessly flying around a porch light at night are dancing. When a creature with a brain far simpler than a mammal's encounters stimuli that were not present during most of its evolutionary history, it isn't terribly surprising that it behaves in a way that does not enhance survival or demonstrate fitness.
interesting (!) good to put details on the general trends. crop type, latitude and elevation, proximity to rail and other industrial infrastructure, market economics with demographics.. more? all would inform this crucial and interdependent topic
Sure but that message would be no worse if sent by email instead of contact form.

And he does address the "risk" of publishing an email address. I can second that I've seen more spam from WordPress forms than published email addresses.
Lets stop a good thing from happening and then congratulate ourselves we have stopped bad thing from happening.
Do plants next.
Not big into poetry, but recently I really enjoyed "Song of the Strange Ascetic" by G.K. Chesterton, so will just share it here:

https://www.chesterton.org/the-song-of-the-strange-ascetic/
This is Tylenol, not an antibiotic. There are two solutions:
* develop confidence, competence, courage, and communication/political skills so that you enjoy collaborating with others more (by virtue of being better at it)
* find a way to steer your actual career towards something where you have greater/total creative control

Actually, these solutions are just two different ways of working toward the same goal: absolute power
This field is so underfunded, but progress is still being made. Check out Commonwealth Fusion and their progress with insanely powerful compact energy efficient magnets. They recently clocked a stable 20T magnetic field.
Nope. I've rented ~20 apartments in my life, both from individuals and from big apt complexes, the former is much worse. A small landlord worries so much about his precious, a missed payment or a broken AC can mean he has to choose between food or his medication next month. There is a lot of tension, suspicions, emotions involved. They can't hide their racism, prejudices very well. Some very ugly situations ensued. Same goes for airbnb vs hotels.
> Hook up a shared mailbox, collaborative inbox, or one of the many off-the-shelf customer service solutions like Zendesk, Zoho Desk, Freshdesk, Zammad, osTicket, or FreeScout to your email.

This list is missing the classic, and still excellent, Request Tracker.

https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker

https://github.com/bestpractical/rt

(I have no affiliation, and I’ve only ever interacted with it from the request-submitting side. But it’s always been straightforward and rock-solid, and it’s worth something that the same system has worked continuously for apparently 20 years. And it’s flexible enough that I once worked with a small institution that wired up Request Tracker for submitting jobs to a large-format printer.)
If you're the type to read comments before the article itself, do yourself a favour and click over if only for the fantastic, sci-fi level design of this device. Incredibly cool-looking.
Can I simulate consciousness with an infinite loop asking an AI what to do next?

while true:
Prompt: our body state + sensory input + "what to do next"

If we can run this loop 60 times per second with such large input, I guess we could simulate a conscious human.
It would encourage buildings to lower asking rents as vacancy periods grow longer, rather than having incentives to leave a commercial unit vacant, as with my proposal they'd already be taking a hit to valuation anyway as soon as the unit went vacant, and a new tenant paying 80% of the last tenant's rent is still much better than leaving it vacant longer while it decays through 70%, then 60%, etc.

So overall the market would be more efficient, rents would go downwards more quickly in terms of CRE downturns, and you'd have fewer vacancies with more units reaching a market-clearing rate.
The Acorn-designed ARMs were released in the late 1980s and very early 1990s. The best-selling designs are the recent ones which do share heritage but are far removed from the excellent work that Furber, Wilson and team did while at Acorn.

RISC OS is a plaything for enthusiasts, a relic if an age where computing was a hobby rather than the corporate monstrosity that it has become.

As a hobbyist and RISC OS user I am fine with that. But Acorn itself got out of the game in 1988 after Phoebe took only 1,400 preorders. Had they continued, Galileo may well have succeeded RISC OS with a more modern foundation.
There doesn't seem to be any reviews that actually mention its taste whatsoever, other than it's supposed to taste like rice. Maybe it doesn't taste great, or it's anyhow not a significant value add for farmers.
> having to install Ollama + Cuda to get locally working LLM didn't felt right to me when there's all what's needed in the browser

Was there something specifically about the install that didn't feel right? I ask because ollama is just a thin go wrapper around llama.cpp (its actually starting a modified version of the llama.cpp server in the background, not even going through the go ffi, likely for perf reasons). In that that sense, you could just install the CUDA toolkit via your package manager and calling `make LLAMA_CUDA=1; ./server` from the llama.cpp repo root to get effectively the same thing in two simple steps with no extra overhead.
Japanese Gov Pushing SK's Naver to Divest from Japan as Trade War Escalates
The linked writing takes an inventory of the sex and skin color of the authors and voices concerns about the lack of diversity thereof.
I’m not sure if you’re making a counterpoint or not, but this isn’t in contradiction to the notion that all animals including humans are tethered to the joyless daily grind
Just wanted to pop in and say hi here! Delighted to discover this thread, it's been quite the adventure trying to get this new version of the book finished. Happy to answer any questions about the book here! Thanks for the support and kind feedback.
> What I don't understand is, why people don't apply that same legitimate criticism to python. I recently had to do a project in python and was astounded by the amount of arbitrary namings and design choices.

I absolutely do. I appreciate the PHP community for having expertise in actually creating sane tools attempting to do a good job. But Python is just batshit crazy with some of the most wild bugs I have seen and no guardrails whatsoever.

Out of all the languages which got a type-system after the fact, PHP is the best one hands down. Runtime-validation of types + non-null by default keeps some of the bad stuff inside Pandora's box.

> Which smells like an anti-pattern to me. Blaming bad code on the language is one way to deal with it.

It was a simple recursive algorithm which we used to make some custom-highlighting on a few select words (much easier to understand than an equivalent iterative approach). But I wasted a good day until I saw that there was a technological limitation which made the algorithm fall apart, and not the logic itself. That's a quite offputting smell.

Of course I understand the economic choice behind PHP... finding PHP programmers is cheaper than going C# or Java. But having a good background in parallelism and having a good grasp on efficient CPU/JVM usage PHP doesn't provide anything unique. Everything it provides, I can achieve equally fast in other established languages, while posing an actual problem when technological limits are reached.
I love not understanding things
I started using kotlin-js a few years ago. That was after using typescript in a project. Unlike typescript, kotlin-js is very unapologetically Kotlin first. It has some facilities to enable interfacing with javascript libraries (mainly the dynamic keyword) but mostly it's just Kotlin. Which means things like refactoring works. The compiler stops you from deploying broken code. And it's a nice language that is well suited for frontend development as demonstrated by its popularity on Android (and increasingly IOS via compose IOS).

I come from a Java background and have mostly done server side until a eight years ago when being in charge of a startup meant I could not be picky about what I did and had to be able to do all of it (web, server, devops, etc.). That started with me inheriting a javascript code base. As javascript codebases go, it wasn't horrible but still pretty mediocre compared to what I was used to. No tests, obviously. And a lot of very verbose gibberish dealing with promises and what not.

I took the opportunity to learn typescript and migrated quite a bit of javascript code to that. I like typescript; it's great. But it is a bit of a compromise in that all javascript is valid typescript. Meaning, you inherit all the ugliness and weirdness with typescript and you need to be careful with how you use it. But it's a fine language and having a decent static type checker just wipes out whole categories of bugs that I don't need in my life. I found plenty of those migrating the Javascript code. Or rather the compiler did. I just fixed them as it found them. Cheap success IMHO. The downside of migrating javascript code is that a lot of it is still javascript and you end up either replacing a lot of its ugliness or not touching it until you have to because, for example, it's obviously broken or not right.

Fast forward a few years and another startup and I had a frontend developer whose only experience was Kotlin on Android. And I needed a webapp in a hurry and had no budget for bringing in re-enforcements. I considered doing react and typescript and training the person up. But instead, we evaluated using kotlin-js. Much to my surprise, this was actually pretty good. I had been using Kotlin server side for a few years and it obviously worked well on Android. But kotlin-js on the web felt risky. Yet a few weeks in we were getting kind of productive. We had integrated a few javascript libraries, picked a ui framework (fritz2) and my frontend developer was getting quite productive with it.

That was three years ago. That app still exists. As a technology choice it's been great. It was definitely a wild ride though in terms of being an early adopter. We were dealing with a rapidly evolving library ecosystem (kotlin multi platform), compiler bugs, a complete compiler rewrite in several steps (2.0 RC2 was released a few days ago), and a lot of other things. However, life is pretty good doing kotlin-js these days. If you want a break from typescript, it's well worth checking out. It would probably be considered cutting edge or risky in a lot of places. But it definitely worked well for us.
These are good stories to keep in mind when your/our much smaller passion projects get killed by management. Life moves on.
You’ll probably enjoy this article

https://lithub.com/shes-bouncing-the-ball-on-the-uncanny-way...
Chapter 6 is also revamped (to use matter.js) and other chapters include expanded / revised examples and explanations. Chapter 10 was almost entirely re-written, Chapter 11 is new.
You can also never be 100 percent sure that not doing something is safe, so the "hard" form of the Precautionary Principal is simply obvious stupid garbage.
I’ve read it and you still are just engaging in nonsensical special pleading. In Smith’s conception, a free market was to be built on freedom from rent seeking, where labor and capital are deployed to productive ends and not siphoned off to unproductive ones by rentiering. Go watch this talk by UCL economist and historian Mariana Mazzucato for better context.

https://iai.tv/video/the-value-of-everything-mariana-mazzuca...
Can anyone explain what self-alignment means here?
Oh yes -- 100%.

Why would anyone use JavaScript when there are web stacks that JavaScript-free? You can use Flutter on the front end (people rave about how nice it is to program in Dart and Flutter) and there are also options like Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView and HTMX, which allow you to build modern web apps without messing with JavaScript.

I can't stand the fact that every other tech startup is using Node on the backend.

Everything can be so much simpler and better and nicer, but it is not.
As constitution - changing one but not another could be a matter of cultural sensitivity as well (although I bet Bard isn’t that smart).

As a Polish person, I don’t mind you changing the constitution, but for example with our national anthemn we are way more attached to changing how it sounds than Americans are to theirs. Ditto where our flag and our symbol can be used.

As for Bard - did you try arguing with it that constitution guarantees you the freedom to play with it? I managed to convince gpt to do some weird stuff by arguing for cultural sensitivity.
>> “GM crops have never been proven safe,” Pelegrina asserted.

> Well, you can't prove a negative.

If someone claims that GM crops have never been proven safe, they should be expected to provide evidence to support that claim. I don't think that the claim being negative should shift the burden of proof away from the claimant.
As a solo dev with a successful electron app I can say that the 5+ year journey from babel+flow+webpack to typescript+webpack, between two targets (main node and renderer chromium) not to mention native modules, node ABI, dual package jsons, electron itself as a giant shifting foundation… has been one of the most intimidating challenges in my dev career and I’m coming out the other side much stronger and confident. Props to everyone involved.
Delimited Generators – A more natural API for JavaScript generators
That's not happily-ever-after.

> That author later posted a video to Instagram explaining that it wasn’t the adult content in the files but rather “Google thought I was spamming people.” Apparently, sending the same doc to scores of people—for example, alpha and beta readers—can make it appear as though the doc was unsolicited."
It doesn't, the use case I had picked up a userscript manager for was to experiment with Web scraping.

I was more saying that if someone reading this thread doesn't need pure CSS for this -- like if you have other needs but a similar problem -- there are additional options.
By proof-of-work consensus. This makes attacks costly, basically they have to spend more resources than half the network, hence the name "51% attack".

The Bitcoin whitepaper [0] is a very accesible read, but the revolutionary ideas are not immediately obvious.

[0] https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf
No, the 2nd Law is just a statistical property relating macrostates to microstates. It can never be the foundation of physics for the underlying system.

Life does a pretty good job of evading it, locally, for lifetimes. Civilizations overcome it for longer, perhaps indefinitely, as long as there are stars/blackholes in the sky, or uranium/hydrogen nuclear fuel to be scavenged.

Wolfram recently tried to explain the 2nd Law, as a consequence of time-coherent computationally-bounded observers. As always with him, it is fascinating and infuriatingly in equal measure:

https://www.wolfram-media.com/products/the-second-law-resolv...

Those subsystems that evade it (life) also need explanation. Friston, Levin, Lane, England and others are starting to give plausible models and explanations.
When you use rsync, you don't have to share your data with foreign intelligence.
I live in the Midwest, and we've had 2 instances of week-long power outages. Our power lines are overhead in many cases, and we have tornadoes. In 2012 we had an EF4 near here: 166-200mph winds! Overhead power lines do not handle flying trees very well. And even with high winds of 85mph, which is not uncommon, there are a lot of falling tree branches that cause downed power lines.

My newer neighborhood (25 years old) has buried power lines, but it's fed from overhead power lines, so we still have power issues. I'm not advocating for gas over electric, just giving some perspective from another part of the world.
Because it says "In the full version of this paper[4], we prove [...]".
"Dirty stream" attack: A common vulnerability pattern in Android apps
Makes sense to use docker. I hope my old company is going with the time by now as well. The problem has always been supporting and updating old applications which you are still contractually obligated in supporting. Bringing them up to speed has always been a struggle. Both, programatically and economically.

> I'd recommend donating if improving the language is important to you.

It's not (-:
The book is going to have a print run and is available for pre-order right now! It's being published by No Starch Press. The hardcover, however, is a mock-up, it will be a flexi-bound softcover.
Hint: the title of this post, and of the paper, uses communication instead of information.
> Traditional electric stoves are the most economical option in new construction as well. Mandating induction would drive up the cost of housing.

So realistically, working class people get left with inferior traditional electric stoves. The talk about gas bans being fine because induction is better anyway is a "let them eat cake" argument. HN is consistently out of touch with working class reality.
It gives you at least some basic security. Nothing can get executed on S3, there is no lateral move. If you are using your own servers for user uploads you have to do a damn good job of quarantining them.
He typed on his device powered by billions of nanometer sized transistors made using quantum mechanics
I watched Shinkalion purely out of desperation and was pleasantly surprised despite being a show for kids and having "terrible graphics".

And yeah there's not much mainstream, but you always get some Mazinger spinoff, some Gundam and other "minor" stuff. The genre is definitely not popular but it's alive.

Super Robot Taisen is also still ongoing, and while it's not a show (although it's been adapted a few times) it's a good way to find stuff that might have escaped your radar. And the originals can help quench the thirst for new cool robots with flashy moves. Lately they have been adding "never animated" stuff like Mazinger ZERO, GaoGaiGar Vs. Betterman and Getter Devolution which is nice too.
A Deep Dive into the Morris Worm
Even if you're not working in the same language/framework/whatever, you can still do code reviews. You might not know all the syntax and high-level details, but even just an overview of the logic happening in the code is already better than 0 review of any kind
But surely, expulsion is not the answer!
EcoEDA: Recycling E-Waste during Electronics Design
It's harder to read code than write it. It's even harder to read code than use an LLM to write it for you.
Look, I'm sorry the Rabbit is dying on the vine. It's just one of those things. This is a hardware solution trying to find a problem - like the Humane Pin - and it's just not good enough to replace the phone in everyone's pocket. It sucks for the devs, but the initial call was bad. Have a good day!
The new settings page exists because of a misguided onus on "intuitive". Now half of the settings are in the new interface and half remain in the old Control Panel... definitely not an improvement for users, but I'm sure someone got to put "built a more intuitive control panel" in their yearly review.
There’s something wrong when you are expected to be a “100x” or “1000x” roi as a startup.

So many good ideas and companies go bust once they accept that vulture capital. End up trying to do too much in order to capture a wider market. Unfortunately it ends in a crash and burn once the VC expectations are not met and money dries up.
> Where was brown rice the traditional way of eating rice (for non-elites)?

Everywhere.

> During what centuries roughly?

At all times up until at least the late 19th century.

> What is your evidence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_rice

> I always thought that brown rice was eaten mainly by Westerners in the 20th Century whose dietary options were varied and plentiful enough that they didn’t notice the anti-nutritive effects of the bran and germ. And maybe also by East Asians millenia ago when rice culture was new and still being explored.

That's insane. White rice was extremely labor intensive to produce until machines started doing it.